On 2022-01-08 19:44, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:09:02 +0000 Peter Michael Green
<plugw...@debian.org> wrote:
scipy build-depends on python3-pybind11 (<< 2.8) but testing and
unstable
have version 2.8.1-3
FTR, the package builds fine with python3-pybind11 2.9
Could you drop that restriction or is it really broken with higher
versions?
They're conservative with their official releases. From
scipy/pyproject.toml: "This to prevent that a future
backwards-incompatible release will break the source build of a SciPy
release.".
It's more relevant for local user pip builds in a virtualenv, keeping
the virtualenv constrained to known-good package versions.
It's not so crucial for Debian since we maintain our own package
self-consistency. In fact the upper bound is only applied upstream to
the release versions. The development version has no upper bound (still
set at "pybind11>=2.4.3")
So it should be safe to remove the upper bound for us. It's a pity
apt-rdepends doesn't support reverse build-dependencies yet, it would
make it simpler to keep track of these things when testing new releases.
Drew
